Successes of Computational Science

Leading researchers are invited to present special sessions about key "Successes of Computational Science" in their field; i.e., areas of success in the science that could not have been (or easily been) achieved without computational science.
Spring 2008 Schedule
February 6
Synthetic biology: from programming bacteria to programming stem cells
Ron Weiss, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

February 11
Visualization and Matching for Networks of People and Data
Tony Jebara, Computer Science, Columbia University

February 25
Multicore Meets Petascale: The Catalyst for a Software Revolution
Kathy Yelick, EECS, UC Berkeley

March 10
Computational and Mathematical Models of Decision Making and Cognitive Control
Jonathan Cohen, Psychology/Neuroscience, Princeton University

March 12
Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of Biomolecular Network Dynamics
Eduardo Sontag, Math/BioMaPS, Rutgers University

March 24
Sensor Sensibility
Robert Calderbank, PACM, Princeton University

April 9
Internal representation of environment in regulatory networks
Saeed Tavazoie, Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

April 28
Getting Ready for Exascale Computational Science
Rick Stevens, Computer Science, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory

Fall 2007 Schedule
September 19
Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity
Barry Honig, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

October 1

Applications of Large-Scale Machine Learning in Vision and Robotics
Yann LeCun, Computer Science Department, New York University
October 17

A Genome-Wide Signaling Map for Animals
Josh Stuart, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California - Santa Cruz
October 22

Scale Makes Things Interesting *and* Useful
Craig Nevill-Manning, Google
November 7

Two's Company, Three's Irreconcilable? Fitting Binary Gene Trees to Non-Binary Species Trees
Dannie Durand, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Spring 2007 Schedule
February 5

Testable New Theory About Origins of Cosmic Structure: Computational Challenges
Erik VanMarcke, Department of Civil Engineering, Princeton University
February 14

Computational Functional Genomics or "What to do with all this Data?
Olga Troyanskaya, Computer Science & Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton University

February 19

From Neural Oscillators through Stochastic Dynamics to Optimal Decisions, or Does Math Matter to Gray Matter?
Philip Holmes, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

March 14

Predictions and Validation of a Model for the Oscillatory Response of P53 to DNA Damage
Gustavo Stolovitzky, Functional Genomics & Systems Biology, IBM
April 30

Progresses and Challenges in Multiscale Modeling
Weinan E, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

May 2

Evolution of Drug Resistance in Bacteria
Eric Siggia, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Fall 2006 Schedule

September 18, 2006

Status & Challenges in Quantum Mechanics Based Modeling of Materials Behavior
Emily A. Carter, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

October 18, 2006

Computational Modeling of Malarial Parasite Protein Interactions Reveals Function on a Genome-Wide Scale
Chris Stoeckert, Department of Genetics, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania
November 13, 2006

Design of High Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Phil Colella, University of California-Lawrence Berkeley Lab

November 27, 2006

Astronomical Medicine' & the Future of High-Dimensional Data Visualization and Analysis Software
Alyssa A. Goodman, Director of the Center for Innovative Computing, Astrophysics, Harvard University

November 29, 2006

Analyzing Protein Interaction Networks
Mona Singh, Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University

December 11, 2006

Multicellular Heritage, Unicellular Attitude: Computational Studies of the Leukocyte Lifestyle
Thomas B. Kepler, Chief, Division of Computational Biology, Duke University
Spring 2006 Schedule
February 13, 2006
Adaptive Ocean Sampling: Optimal Use of Mobile Sensors to Study Physical and Biological Dynamics
Naomi Leonard, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Video
February 15, 2006

Analyzing Time Course Datasets to Discover Complex Temporal Invariants
Bud Mishra, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
*Room 105, Small Auditorium, Computer Science Building Video

March 15, 2006
Learning Predictive Models of Gene Regulation
Christina Leslie, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University Video
May 1, 2006
Tracking Thoughts with Functional MRI
Ken Norman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University Video
Fall 2005 Schedule

September 28, 2005

Computational Approaches Towards Human Genome Annotation
Mark Gerstein, Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Computer Science, Yale University

October 19, 2005

Genome-wide analysis of polymorphic differences that affect gene expression
Leonid Kruglyak, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton
December 5, 2005
Likelihood Inference for Discretely Sampled Diffusions
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Director, Bendheim Ctr.  for Finance,  Dept. of Economics Princeton University
December 12, 2005

Computational methods for high-dimensional dynamic programs for discrete resource allocation
Warren Powell & Hugo Simao, The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, ORFE, Princeton

Spring 2005 Schedule
February 23, 2005

Reverse engineering of regulatory networks in human B cells
Andrea Califano, Director of Columbia Genome Center, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

February 28, 2005
Computing the Universe
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Astrophysics, Princeton University
March 30, 2005
Regulatory Motifs in Cellular Networks
Ravi Iyengar, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
April 4, 2005
Weighing evidence without using a gold standard
Phil Long, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University
April 27, 2005
Chains of statements about molecular interactions in biological publications
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia Genome Center & Department of BioMedical Informatics, Columbia University
Fall 2004 Schedule 
September 22, 2004

Computational Challenges in Large-Scale Pathway Modeling
Frank Tobin, GlaxoSmithKline
September 27, 2004
Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing in Plasma Science
William Tang, Chief Scientist, PPPL, Associate Director, PICSciE
October 11, 2004
Advances in Climate and Weather Prediction using High-Performance Computing
Brian Gross, Deputy Director, GFDL
November 22, 2004
Computational Science Challenges in Financial Risk Management
Andrew Abrahams, J.P. Morgan Chase
December 6, 2004
Computing the Sounds of Music
Perry Cook, Computer Science, Princeton University

Spring 2004 Schedule
February 11, 2004
Scientific Computing in Product and Process Discovery:
Advances In Global Optimization, Scheduling of Operations, Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Chemical Engineering
February 16, 2004

Extracting Biological Information from Genome-Scale Experimentation
David Botstein, Genomics Institute
April 19, 2004
Trading Computation for Experiment: Noninvasive Imaging, Analysis and Application
Jeffrey Saltzman, Merck
April 21, 2004
Successes of Computational Science with Application to Turbulent Flows
Pino Martin, MAE
Fall 2003 Schedule
November 5, 2003
Discoveries made by Scientific Computation in Astrophysics
James M. Stone, Astrophysics
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